IT WAS IN THE PAPERS

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

July 26, 1996 12 AM PT

Olympics 101: The state of our educational system may have been summed up by the twentysomething Orlando bakery shop worker who was explaining to a friend the security concerns at the Olympics.

“You know, at the 1976 Games in Munich, some Middle Eastern people got shot up,” he said.

Olympics

Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

IT WAS IN THE PAPERS

More From the Los Angeles Times